Managing the risk from hunting for the Viscount Melville sound polar bear population

Ursus

Volumn 13, Issue , 2001, Pages 185-202

  Taylor, Mitchell K ^a   Laake, Jeff ^b   Cluff, H Dean ^c   Ramsay, Malcolm ^d   Messier, François ^d  

^a Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demography; Harvest; Life table; Mark recapture; Polar bear; Population viability analysis; Recruitment; Survival; Ursus maritimus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33044499734     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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